Professor Ann Monotti

Associate Dean Postgraduate Studies
LLB (Hons), LLM, PhD,

Professional Profile

Ann Monotti is Professor and Associate Dean (Postgraduate Studies) in the Monash University Law School. She has conducted research over many years into the issues concerning universities and their ownership and exploitation of intellectual property as well as access to and protection of biomedical research materials.  Some of this was funded with grants from the Australian Research Council.  Her Monash PhD was awarded on the basis of the book of which she is the principal author: Universities and Intellectual Property, Ownership and Exploitation (Oxford University Press, NY in 2003) (with Sam Ricketson).  Her writings in this book influenced all judges in the UWA v Gray litigation to recognise that the special nature of universities requires different principles to govern ownership of employee inventions.

Ann has taught patent law in the Monash LLM for many years and is the author of the patents, confidential information and plant breeders' rights in chapters in Davison, Monotti and Wiseman, Australian Intellectual Property Law published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press.  In addition, she has published widely in both Australian and European journals on copyright and patent related issues, is an Australian correspondent for the European Intellectual Property Review and a member of the Intellectual Property Committee of the Law Council of Australia. She was a partner in legal practice for a number of years before entering acadamia in 1991.

Other publications by Professor Monotti are available at:
http://ssrn.com/author=722050
 

Areas of Expertise

Ownership and exploitation of intellectual property in universities
Intellectual property aspects of eResearch
Intellectual property
Access to tangible research materials in biomedical research
Patent law
Designs law
Law of trade secrets

Teaching Commitments

Design Law and Practice (LAW7254)
Patents for Inventions (LAW7119)